Oh man, GG.. I feel your pain. I fried my laptop about one year ago when I spilled an entire coke onto the keyboard. I took it in to a computer fix it shop, and he said the motha board was fried. I could either get it fixed ($950), or buy a brand new, fancy-smancy PC ($1,200). INeedless to say, no longer have a laptop, and I've already ruined three keyboards since then (but they're only like $20 to replace)

Oh man, GG.. I feel your pain. I fried my laptop about one year ago when I spilled an entire coke onto the keyboard. I took it in to a computer fix it shop, and he said the motha board was fried. I could either get it fixed ($950), or buy a brand new, fancy-smancy PC ($1,200). INeedless to say, no longer have a laptop, and I've already ruined three keyboards since then (but they're only like $20 to replace)

Jewels, I gotta love ya. You never shared the "coke" story. I remember the eggnog debacle.

I spilled an entire diet coke on my keyboard when my (this very) laptop was about two weeks old. About all that happened was the keys got stuck, so I used the on-screen keyboard for a couple of days, and then Q-tipped the keyboard. (I had no idea these things came apart!)

I feel for you GG . I posted in the other thread about the durability of my Dell laptop to stand up to my son spilling my full coffee (double double) on my laptop. I just laid it out flat upside down right away on a towel . It drained out and worked ok. I always use baby wipes to clean up sticky keys / mouses .
Don't know what they put in those things , but still I use them all over the house many years after there were any diapers in the house.

Thanks ya'll...and eny, your story makes me feel better. The keyboard on this laptop pops right after you loosen a couple screws. It's been doused in warm and cold water and is upside drying as we speak.

Per the link someone posted about, I'm not going to even try to turn on my laptop again for 72 hours. I have my work laptop and that'll do for the next couple days.